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Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance by ggreer on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:53PM (#27562656)
On my laptop's Core i5-10210U with mitigations=off, the demo just prints "[!] error: could not infer memory layout" until it runs out of retries.

This is on Chromium 91.0.4472.106 and kernel 5.12.11-arch1-1. lscpu shows vulnerabilities:

    Itlb multihit:         KVM: Mitigation: VMX disabled
    L1tf:                  Not affected
    Mds:                   Not affected
    Meltdown:              Not affected
    Spec store bypass:     Vulnerable
    Spectre v1:            Vulnerable: __user pointer sanitization and usercopy barriers only; no swapgs barriers
    Spectre v2:            Vulnerable, IBPB: disabled, STIBP: disabled
    Srbds:                 Mitigation; TSX disabled
    Tsx async abort:       Not affected
Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance by diveanon on Saturday June 19, 2021 @07:40PM (#27565591)
I got the same result on a pretty similar system.